A renowned pioneer in laser technology, Rui Q. Yang broadens and enhances the existing strengths of the mid-infrared laser technology research and development program. His innovative ideas helped support the mission to Mars.

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and in computer engineering. Graduate degrees include the M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering and the M.S. in telecommunications systems.

Having Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering in a single School offers the student an exciting combination of technologies with which to meet the design problems of the twenty-first century and an opportunity to develop hands-on skills at the device and system levels.

Radar engineers are researching, designing and building new systems and processes for data collection in meteorology, energy, defense, aerospace and other fields. With the addition of four experienced radar engineers to ECE's faculty, we can compete and lead in radar innovation in all fields.

Awards

The School of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), within the College of Engineering at OU, is proud to celebrate its excellent students and nationally recognized faculty. Several recent award-winning examples are noted below. Within ECE, students regularly engage in a variety of hands-on projects as part of their curriculum with professors who are engaged in cutting edge research.

Student Award Winners:

Faculty:

Dr. Chad Davisreceived the prestigious Brandon H. Griffith award at the annual E-Week Banquet at the University of Oklahoma. This college-wide award was established in 1969 in honor of Professor Brandon H. Griffith to recognize excellence in teaching and extraordinary support for students.

Dr. Rui Q. Yang A team led by Rui Q. Yang, has reached a major milestone in the development of interband cascade lasers by creating a robust technology that operates at room temperature and works continuously—an important component for building practical systems.

Dr. Yang, who invented the interband cascade laser, proposed the concept 20 years ago. He continues to perfect the technology for use in multiple applications, such as detecting pipeline leaks, finding new oil and gas wells and in the NASA Mars rover Curiosity. Yang owns four patents on interband cascade lasers and related devices with interest in assisting the technology transfer and commercialization of these semiconductor device components. Yang continues to collaborate with NASA, Sandia National Laboratory and others on his research. Dr. Yang was elected a fellow of The Optical Society (OSA). He was also recently elevated to Fellow member of the IEEE for his contributions to the mid-infrared interband cascade laser and related optoelectronic devices.

Dr. Jim Sluss (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Dr. Deborah Trytten (Computer Science) and Dr. Randa Shehab (Industrial & Systems Engineering) served as general co-chairs for the Frontiers in Education conference in Oklahoma City, OK, which was hosted by the College of Engineering. The conference welcomed about 480 engineering educators from the U.S. and abroad for a three day conference to talk about the latest advances in engineering education. The CoE had about 30 participants – faculty and graduate students in attendance.

Dr. J. R. Cruz Professor and Tilley Chair of Electrical Engineering, is now serving as Director, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), he was appointed to his new position July 1, 2014.

J. R. is a nationally recognized educator and researcher, with extensive experience both in industry and academia. He started his career as an engineer and task leader at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and later became a member of the research staff of Motorola. He is a world-renowned expert in signal processing and coding for magnetic recording and is currently the principal investigator on a three-year NSF project to develop the next generation of two-dimensional magnetic recording technologies. J. R. is a Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to communications signal processing and education," and Distinguished Lecturer of two IEEE societies: Communications and Vehicular Technology. He holds several patents and counts among his numerous scholarly publications the Best Paper Prize at the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). His professional service activities include Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. He has been elected to two terms as President of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and is currently the Vice-President in charge of worldwide conferences. Over the years, he has served the University of Oklahoma in many capacities, including Chairman of the Research Council.

Dr. J. Jiang was recently named the OGE Endowed Chair Professor of Power Systems.

Dr. J. Sluss was selected to serve as a General Co-Chair of the 43rd Annual Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference, which is the major international conference about educational innovations and research in engineering and computing.

Dr. N. Goodman has been selected to chair the Applications technical track at the 2014 IEEE International Radar Conference.

Adjunct ECE Professor R. Palmer has been selected to serve as the Emerging Technologies session chair at the AMS Radar Meteorology Conference.